After a few post-date withdrawals, I developed some tactics for working through the onslaught of difficult feelings.

We were having dinner at my parents house when my husband asked my grandma how she felt about grandpa's thirst for adventure and constant road trips. Nobody ...

I have to hide this huge most loving part of me from most of the world, because seeing it as it is would make most of the world uncomfortable. I have to hide...

In her research article, Anne-Laure Le Cunff defines veto as an agreement in polyamorous relationships that gives one person the power to end their partner’s...

A few months after my husband and I opened our marriage I fell for a guy (let’s call him S) who told me that he was polyamorous, and that it was just a matte...

Something interesting happened to me recently… I fell in love with my body. When I was growing up I was an awkward, lanky preteen with bony knees. I felt lik...

My dad has a theory that a relationship can only be successful when these four elements are present

I have a confession to make: I am an introvert. Vocabulary.com defines an introvert as someone who prefers solitary activities and who “would rather work thr...

Many poly bloggers, myself included, have attempted to explain what polyamory really is. But many people still don't get what it's not.

There was no concept of self-love where I grew up. Forget self-love, feelings just wasn't something people talked about. I don't remember any of my relatives...

The topic of dating friends has come up quite a bit for me recently. In fact, it surfaced multiple times just in the last week in conversations with friends ...

When my husband and I decided to open up our marriage our kids were about 4 and 6 years old. I was worried about how our lifestyle would affect them, to say ...

Last Tuesday night was officially the funnest night of 2019! I went to see the Thunder From Down Under show with my partner's other female friends. It was an...

It took me close to a year to decide to try online dating after we opened up our marriage. It took my husband six months longer... not without my... khm... c...

Lately I’ve been crossing paths with quite a few polyamorous people as more and more friends have been coming out as poly and introducing me to their poly ci...

...A story about how I stopped following societal norms While growing up, I was constantly reminded of what an ideal relationship should be like: a man and a...

According to WIkipedia, attachment theory was primarily studied in the context of children and parents in the 1960s and 1970s. In the late 80s it was extende...

There is a great side-benefit to having multiple romantic partners: you might make new friends with your partners' other partners (also called "metamours"). ...

When we decided to open our marriage my husband started dating someone almost right away. For a while I had a crush on a guy that I couldn't date, so I didn'...

There were a few moments in the past few months when I have felt judged by people who found out I was polyamorous. It felt strangely familiar – like the expe...